I used to love Skins. Yes, I know I’ve always been too old for it. Even
when it started I was pushing 30. But I interviewed Sir Ian McKellen once
and he told me it was his favourite thing on television, and he’s pushing
about 118, so there.

It was sun-dappled, it was sexy. It revolved around a sixth-form college in
Bristol and everybody looked fantastic, even when they were wasted, which
was most of the time. Adults, or at least anybody over about 25, were
portrayed as actual lunatics; inexplicable in